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Unfortunate, but I would imagine many jewish people dont agree.
An editorial is called commentary because it is just the comments of an individual. He is free to feel that way as I am free to disagree but I give his opinion no more or less credibility than anyone elses and dont assume he represents every jewish person any more than I represent every black one. |
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Unfortunate, but I would imagine many jewish people dont agree. An editorial is called commentary because it is just the comments of an individual. He is free to feel that way as I am free to disagree but I give his opinion no more or less credibility than anyone elses and dont assume he represents every jewish person any more than I represent every black one. Any person who would have written that in the American media would have been crucified with no end of barrage of calling him racist and right wing nut. admit it! |
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I read an article where the majority of Norwegians felt snubbed by the President
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I read an article where the majority of Norwegians felt snubbed by the President Yes, he snubbed them in several different ways. It's typical of him, his arrogance causes him to decide on his own modes of behavior, rather than following the norms. |
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I read an article where the majority of Norwegians felt snubbed by the President See, it's because how the news gets around the world. There is a delay in everything so Europe was (is?) still going about the 2008 Campaign and he is really doing all that things he said right now..so whatever they report there - and I have read many biased news from the European press and I read them daily (German/French/Romanian/British/Hungarian) , they are still going around with the "change we can believe in" - and they think that there are huge changes already taken place in USA and they are shocked to learn that nothing has changed whatsoever. Even here, people still refuse to see that there is absolutely nothing changed, beside debating about the healthcare and tearing each other hair out on various issues. It's all just talk talk talk for an entire year now and ZERO things have changed. |
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Edited by
Atlantis75
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Fri 12/11/09 01:29 PM
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...double
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I don't know how true it is or not, but this is the article I saw
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/obama-nobel-peace-prize-snub |
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Unfortunate, but I would imagine many jewish people dont agree. An editorial is called commentary because it is just the comments of an individual. He is free to feel that way as I am free to disagree but I give his opinion no more or less credibility than anyone elses and dont assume he represents every jewish person any more than I represent every black one. Any person who would have written that in the American media would have been crucified with no end of barrage of calling him racist and right wing nut. admit it! ACtually, in America we have the right to our opinions so people have just as much right to oppose what is written as they have to write it. The regulars on the Fox news stations make these types of assertions regularly and none are hanging from a cross. ONe cant reserve the right to publicly decry the actions and character of others in a public forum or venue and then cry when they are on the receiving end of similar criticism. |
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I don't know how true it is or not, but this is the article I saw http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/obama-nobel-peace-prize-snub Hey yellow, this is just another article about individuals who oppose his decisions, there is also this paragraph in the article "The Norwegian Nobel committee, which awards the peace prize, dismissed the criticism. "We always knew that there were too many events in the programme. Obama has to govern the US and we were told early on that he could not commit to all of them," said Geir Lundestad, secretary of the committee. Although Obama will not lunch with King Harald, he will see him on a visit to the royal palace. " If he attends public outings people accuse him of being an egotist and publicity hound and if he doesnt others feel snubbed. He cant please everyone anymore than any of us can. |
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Well, Fanta,, cant believe you posted that whole thing. I thought it was his usual eloquent and diplomatic style. Made me proud once again. 
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I don't know how true it is or not, but this is the article I saw http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/obama-nobel-peace-prize-snub Hey yellow, this is just another article about individuals who oppose his decisions, there is also this paragraph in the article "The Norwegian Nobel committee, which awards the peace prize, dismissed the criticism. "We always knew that there were too many events in the programme. Obama has to govern the US and we were told early on that he could not commit to all of them," said Geir Lundestad, secretary of the committee. Although Obama will not lunch with King Harald, he will see him on a visit to the royal palace. " If he attends public outings people accuse him of being an egotist and publicity hound and if he doesnt others feel snubbed. He cant please everyone anymore than any of us can. hmmmmm it was just something to discuss. I realize that there are different views, pro or against. I just threw this in since we were talking about the Nobel Peace Prize. that is why I gave the link....so all can read it |
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Here is what the Israeli newspaper think of Obama: Ari Shavit / Obama awarded Nobel because he's a Democrat, liberal and black Today a grotesque ceremony will be held in Oslo. An American president who has not yet managed to make peace anywhere in the world will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He will be awarded the prize even though he is personally responsible for scores of targeted killings and much slaughter of civilians in aerial bombardments. He will be awarded the prize even though he has just decided to escalate one of the two ineffectual wars he is conducting. He will be awarded the prize only because he is a Democrat, a liberal and a black man who defeated the Republicans and cast George W. Bush out of the White House. Oslo has provided us with many amusing jokes in recent decades. However, the joke of Obama as peace prize laureate is the funniest of all. It proves the absurdity of the lengths to which the self-righteous European culture of political correctness can go. Obama is not to blame for the Norwegians having decided to act foolishly. However, if he had any courage he would have refused to accept a Nobel prematurely. He would have asked the prize committee to judge him at the end of his term in office and not at its start. Obama hasn't done so, and this isn't surprising. Thus far the glamorous president has not shown courage on any issue or in any area. True, Obama is intelligent, articulate and charismatic. However, he hasn't really done anything yet in the international arena. He has orchestrated neither confrontations nor reconciliations. He has neither won a victory nor made peace. He has not evinced willingness to pay any sort of price for any sort of achievement. In his first year as president of the world, Obama has not proved he has a backbone. He has not yet manifested himself as a leader. http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134048.html Looks like Israeli newspapers are more free than the controlled media in USA. Israel is just mad because Obama won't bend over for them like every Republican seems to do. Esp the Bush Admin. |
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
So Obama refused to go to lunch and talk croquet with some Royal symbol who has no real power to speak of. He did meet with him, and more importantly he did talk official business with the PM. Royalty around the world should be snubbed by their own country men instead of allocating huge portions of their budgets to keep living their lavish lifestyles. |
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LOL
Someone ought to snub the Queen of England. |
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In his, written by a speechwriter, speech are lies.
1. He cares not 1 iota about human rights. |
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Blah, Blah, Blah. So Obama refused to go to lunch and talk croquet with some Royal symbol who has no real power to speak of. He did meet with him, and more importantly he did talk official business with the PM. Royalty around the world should be snubbed by their own country men instead of allocating huge portions of their budgets to keep living their lavish lifestyles.  I hope you don't think I gave an opinion on it. I simply posted it for discussion. I have yet to give my opinion
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Blah, Blah, Blah. So Obama refused to go to lunch and talk croquet with some Royal symbol who has no real power to speak of. He did meet with him, and more importantly he did talk official business with the PM. Royalty around the world should be snubbed by their own country men instead of allocating huge portions of their budgets to keep living their lavish lifestyles. I hope you don't think I gave an opinion on it. I simply posted it for discussion. I have yet to give my opinion
No Babe! I'm just American to the Bone. Why should we honor Royalty? We kicked them out of our futures. |
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ok...my opinion on the Norwegians is this....I don't agree that he should have gotten the prize BUT he has things to do back home that take precedent over all of that. so I can see why he would have to cancel some things
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The second sentence in our Declaration of Independence states,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Why would any US President bow to any Royal? Esp. the Queen or King of England. It erks me every time I see it happen. |
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Fanta,
That I can't answer since I'm not the president....YET
I would assume it's out of courtesy. |
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